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The race for president is getting so crowded that it seems like soon there may be more of them than there are of us.

Former New York Governor George Pataki and Rick Santorum, the one-time Pennsylvania senator who came up short in the 2012 presidential contest, joined the crowded Republican field in the last couple weeks, but GOP voters think they have little chance of capturing their party's presidential nomination.

Earlier this week, longtime Senator Lindsey Graham entered the sea of candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination, but GOP voters rate the South Carolinian the longest of the long-shots in the race so far. Perhaps most galling to Graham is that his nemesis, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, with whom he frequently clashes in Washington, is seen by nearly three times as many Republicans as likely to win the nomination.

By week’s end, there was one more Republican officially in the race, former Texas Governor Rick Perry. We’ll tell you how voters rate his chances early next week.

On the Democratic side, former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley threw his hat in the ring last weekend. O’Malley is an even bigger unknown to members of his own party than Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, but both men have a steep hill to climb if they’re going to take next year’s Democratic presidential nomination away from Hillary Clinton.

In perhaps the biggest surprise of the presidential contest yet, former Republican-senator-turned-Democratic-Governor Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island this week became the fourth announced Democratic candidate. Rasmussen Reports will have numbers on Chafee’s run early next week, too.

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